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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1905
Page
3
A wealthy newcomer to Washington astonishes guests by naming a rare wine’s brand and vintage without sight of the bottle. She credits early visits to her New Orleans father’s cellar and his dusty bottles, while a hostess quips that there isn’t a cellar in New Orleans.
A Chicago Daily News quip shows a man asking for dog biscuits and a grocer replying about sausages. A Lynn Massachusetts pupil struggles to define a vacuum, saying he has it in his head. The items showcase humorous wordplay.
The editor finds the John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin to be a highly reliable and extensive seed grower after reviewing a statement claiming ten thousand plants to be part of their operation.
An offer promises seeds to grow 1 000 cabbages 2 000 turnips 2 000 celery 2 000 lettuce 1 000 onions 1 000 radishes 1 000 flowers plus Berliner Cauliflower for 160 postage and 20c postage, with a return notice. The item also mentions the Palajones on the war path in Samar in a 40 year family span.
Special excursions to the Southwest on the Kansas City Southern Railway depart February 21 and March 7 and 21, 1905, to Port Arthur Beaumont Lake Charles Galveston Houston and San Antonio with 21 day limit and stopovers both ways. For literature on The Land of Fulfillment along the KC Southern Ry contact S G Warner in Kansas City Mo. Civilization advances but poverty grows with the cry for predigested bread and an apopasteurized stone.
Advertises Pazo Ointment claiming to treat itching bleeding and protruding piles with a money back guarantee if not cured in six to twelve days. States druggist will refund purchase price.
A collection of clipping quotes notes an orchestra's strong ensemble, a Newrich host praising the group, and a joke about a violinist. A New England clerk wins a $1500 car but cannot keep it, sparking comments on fortune and class, while Raisuli’s social ascent is playfully foretold with a hyphen.
A Canton Ohio woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring health and a flawless complexion. She details prior nervousness headaches torpid liver indigestion and facial pimples, then notes her skin improved after two boxes and she gained vigor.
Des Moines reports partial relief after two weeks of severe coal shortages in Iowa. Relief trains reach towns, schedules resume, and warmer weather ends severe cold that threatened life and trade. Charities note unprecedented suffering while railroads push coal and food through snowdrifts, with normal commerce expected to take time to restore.
Prof Holden travels to towns across Iowa to push a 1905 seed corn campaign. He warns yields average 32 to 34 bushels per acre and calls for action to improve corn production amid a 223 million bushel statewide crop last year. Railways host speeches from February 13 to April 18 with stops in Manilla San porn Keystone Charter Oak Strawberry Point Perry Storm Lake Carroll Lake City Hawarden Sioux City Eagle Grove Waterloo Fort Dodge Cherokee and other cities.
The piece details a long list of census questions and methods to gather accurate data in Iowa. It also notes an initiative where the State Superintendent invites a representative Iowa high school student to join a chaperoned trip to the inaugural in Washington on March 4.
About 200 high school pupils must cover their own costs estimated at 100 dollars. Their entertainment is provided without charge, with the belief that the honor of the trip will justify and repay the expense.
Keb, a Wapello county coal mining town, has vanished as the coal vein exhausted. Once near 1000 residents, the population fled after three months of no mines, leaving only the company store as a remnant of the now abandoned community.
The executive asks the Attorney General Mullan to investigate who owns the Des Moines River and whether coal firms may mine beneath the riverbed. About 75,000 tons have already been taken, prompting state concerns over encroachment and a reevaluation of the rights involved.
Gov. Cummins appeals to President Roosevelt after failing to persuade the War Department to correct battlefield inscriptions at Shiloh. He argues the true inscriptions matter deeply to veterans of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth regiments and to Civil War survivors across the state.
Superintendent John F. Riggs presents a amendment to state school laws with a consolidation aim slightly less extensive than civil townships. He releases a summary of rural school statistics and outlines data to support the proposal as part of the reform effort.
James Jones longtime Atlantic businessman dies after a two year illness. His wife passed away about two months earlier.
In Melbourne on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul line a broken rail caused a fatal wreck killing conductor H. M. Marsh and brakeman C. A. Morres. The crash left eight passenger cars crushed and a 200 foot bridge damaged with 24 injured. trains carried Denver, Portland and Iowa travelers. In Marshalltown a rear end collision on the Iowa Central between New Sharon and Moore killed conductor Bergdell and brakeman Penn.
William Lee of DeWitt risked his life in Chicago when the Brevoort hotel burned. Awakened by a bellboy, he found Mrs. L. Land of St. Louis unconscious and carried her to safety down a smoke filled corridor to the Morrison hotel where she revived. Lee carried the injured woman despite freezing feet and danger to himself.
A morning blaze in Oskaloosa destroyed over 150000 dollars in property, gutting the Fitch Fitch harness shop and Stull McGregor furniture house and leaving much of the business district ashes. Insurance largely covers the losses except for the Iowa Telephone Co and a few small firms. The fire began about 230 and burned five hours.
Prescott The Burlington passenger train No. 3 left Chicago and derailed near Prescott. No passengers were hurt. Two engines were ditched, coaches stayed upright. Engineer EH H Allen was killed and engineers Peterson and firemen Sperry and Rossner were badly scalded.
Sigourney farmer Elmer Pilkington died from blood poisoning after his lips were badly chapped clearing a snow blockade in cold wind. His face swelled Wednesday and he died a few hours later, authorities said.
Muscatine resident Oaifield reports the death of one of the area’s oldest settlers, Drury. Across Iowa reports note deaths, fires, and accidents from Cedar Falls to Davenport, including James H. Wilson and John W. Green.
A New Jersey suburb provides a lesson on appendicitis via a classroom demonstration. A superintendent of public schools explains the vermiform appendix and notes that an operation for appendicitis is the amputation of this supposed useless organ.
Cleveland Leader notes Pa Twaddles-Mrs. T. argue over introducing a new breakfast food as Ma Twaddles-John and Vin discuss the jiu jiten term seen in papers. The household debate centers on keeping or banning the new item.
A compact satirical musing mentions a wife with a charming phone voice and a man content to see himself as grand, while a Detroit Prep Press quips about conversations. The piece also notes an author who failed at poetry yet claims fame writing a rhymed cookbook about vegetables.
Goodland Kansas February 20 Special report says N W Albertson a blacksmith healed from Rheumatism after one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He slept poorly before and feared losing his shop but the pills removed all pain and grains and neighbors now use the remedy.
Twenty five years of laboratory work underlie Cuticura Pills for treating humors of the skin scalp and blood with hair loss. The complete external and internal system includes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Revolvent Pills for 41 00. A single set is often enough to cure.
The report notes gains in Michigan with 240 bushels per acre and in Massachusetts 955, North Dakota 310, plus 30 other states from 15 to 300 bushels per acre. It argues that advancing oat varieties could add millions of bushels and dollars to farmers if widely adopted.
The notice promotes VOVOVO Womebuilder Yellow and other seeds as top yields per acre. It invites Mr. Wariner to mail NoTron AxD 100 in stampa to John A. Salter Seed Co. in Ta Crosse Wisconsin to receive a catalog and seed samples.
If you are going east and want up-to-date service at fewer rates than via other lines, take the Nickel Plate Road. No excess fares charged on any train, excellent dining and sleeping car service. All trains leave from LaBalle Street Station, Chicago. For particulars address J. Y. Gwinban, Gen. Agent, No. 111 Adams Street, Chicago, ILL.
An article describes the Dixie Flyer and Chicago Florida Limited rail routes via the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway and Seattle fields route. It mentions departure from Chicago, arrival times to Jacksonville and other cities, dining and observation cars, and travel through historic sections. Contact Breard Youll of the Northern Pass Agent in Chicago for more details.
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease for curing painful feet and making new shoes fit, naming A. Olmsted of Le Roy New York as the sample address. A separate Michigan anecdote mentions an editor describing a hollow tree full of squirrels whose breathing broke the bark.
A reader from Trinity Springs Indiana criticized Piso's Cure for Consumption and a 1900 debt sentence. A New York lime remark notes you cannot offend a mother by calling a baby ugly.
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